The rainy season appears to be over in Japan’s two remaining regions to the southwest and northeast, the weather agency said on Wednesday, declaring an end to the early summer wet period throughout the archipelago. The rainy period typically lasts for about a month ...

Japan is expected to secure the minimum required power supply capacity this summer, the industry ministry said Thursday, meaning electricity supply will be sufficient during the high-demand season even if none of the country’s nuclear reactors resumes operation by then. Although the government is ...

Sweltering summer heat has left at least 15 people dead over the past week while more than 8,000 others have been rushed to hospitals with symptoms of heat-related illnesses, according to official figures released Tuesday. At least six people died on Saturday alone, when ...

At least two people died and hundreds were taken to hospitals over the weekend as a heat wave swept over Japan, officials and reports said Sunday. A 74-year-old woman collapsed while working in a greenhouse in Chiba Prefecture on Saturday and was later pronounced ...

Two women died in Chiba and Ibaraki prefectures on Saturday as the nation experienced unseasonably hot weather, while more than 200 people were taken to hospitals with heatstroke. Temperatures soared above 30 degrees Celsius at 315 locations nationwide, peaking at 35.6 degrees in the ...

The government said Friday it won’t set numerical power-saving targets this summer even though concerns about shortages linger, especially among suppliers in the west and southwest. It is the second consecutive year that the government has refrained from imposing numerical targets to stave off ...

Record-high temperatures this summer caused at least 87 deaths from heat-related maladies and record-breaking downpours that triggered landslides across the country. According to the Meteorological Agency, temperatures from Kyushu to the Kanto-Koshin region began climbing between July 6 and 8, when the rainy season ...

Summer is not summer in Japan without two things: 1. Heat (OK, so maybe it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity); and 2 . . . High school baseball. Which means the national high school baseball tournament at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture ...